Mobile phone lines in Spain rose in September to 64,119 million, which implies an advance of 0.54% compared with the 63,773 million recorded in August, according to the monthly telecommunications statistics released this Wednesday by the Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC).
With regard to mobile number portability, during the ninth month of the year 563,947 operator changes were carried out, a figure that represents a 1.2% drop compared with the same period of 2025.
The user balance for September shows that Movistar (+22,477 lines) and Digi (+59,069) closed the month with a favorable net result in portability.
On the opposite side, Vodafone (-11,632), Orange España (-64,434) and the group of mobile virtual network operators (OMV) (-5,480) recorded negative balances, that is, they gave up more numbers than they acquired from other companies.
As the regulator details in CNMCData, mobile phone penetration reached 129.3 lines per 100 inhabitants, 1.9 points higher than that recorded one year earlier, while machine-to-machine lines (M2M) reached 57.9 million.
By market share, Movistar, Vodafone and Orange España --new corporate brand after the integration of MasOrange in the Orange Group on September 22, 2026-- brought together 85.2% of the total number of mobile lines, a figure that rises to 98.2% when Digi is added.
Likewise, mobile broadband voice lines totaled 57.8 million, which represents year-on-year growth of 2.8%.
Fixed broadband and fixed-line telephone
In the area of fixed broadband, fiber to the home (FTTH) reached 18.5 million lines after adding 105,280 net subscriptions during September.
In contrast, cable lines (HFC) prolonged their decline with a reduction of 21,680 access lines.
In this segment, Movistar, Vodafone and Orange España accounted for 79.3% of the lines, a combined share that rises to 94.5% if Digi is added.
Finally, fixed-line telephone lines fell by 19,887 during September, to end up at 17.6 million, maintaining a penetration rate of 35.5 lines per 100 inhabitants.
During the ninth month of the year, 104,196 fixed numbers were ported, which implies an increase of 3.9% compared with September 2025.